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Javier must reintegrate into society after spending 14 years in prison. His family and friends reject him, so he takes refuge in a house where he rents a room. There he meets Amanda, who helps him find a way to reunite with his teenage daughter that he barely knows.
Oct 2010
A young swimmer with sleep disorder deals with the sudden disappearance of her mother and the arrival of Rebeca, a mysterious girl who rents a room in her home. Unaided from the police and confused by paranoia, she finds herself engulfed in a struggle to maintain her sanity and get her life back.
May 2019
Paulina, a trainee social worker doing her internship in a reintegration center, meets Manuel, with whom she starts a friendship that promps her to question her vocation and begin a 'second adolescence', this time free from the tyranny of conventions and routine. Spending time in a world that does not belong to her.
Sep 2013
A woman who is progressively losing her memory faces the harsh reality of a family illness that has no turning back.
Jun 2015
Camilo feels that something is wrong at home. His mother has slept several nights with him, and his dad has not been much in the house. The crisis increases when Camilo lives the accidental run over of a dog, returning from school with his father.
Oct 2013
After gaining alcohol-fueled superpowers, Ricardo, a young punk from the outskirts, sets out to change society. But one brutal mistake will ignite an international conflict, with him at the heart of the storm.
Oct 2025
Camila is a young dance student. She has a committed boyfriend and supporting family, but when she discovers she is pregnant, all that love and encouragement become a burden. Camila will have to set other people’s expectations aside and make her own decision, no matter how difficult.
Oct 2016
In La Lágrima, a desertic mining lost town, women live under the strict rules of patriarchy. Dina (16), pressed by an unwanted pregnancy, plans to escape. But when she finds out her sister Sariri (11), has to initiate womanhood after the arrival of her menarche, she’ll have to decide if they’ll escape together through the desert.
Mar 2025
After the sudden death of his father and finding out he is going to lose the house where him and his family have vacationed at for over 25 years, Nancho and his family will seek for a way to sabotage the sale and will fight for the house that belongs to them, where they have grown up and formed many memories. But the attachment and disobedience of Nancho will lead to the family taking drastic decisions.
Nov 2023
A young and withdrawn costume designer pays for his mother’s medical treatment by being a dominant sex worker, in sadomasochistic encounters for a well-known soap opera actress.
Dec 2023
After returning home, Clara begins an affair with the maid, Susana. Clara's mother soon after starts to suspect.
Nov 2011
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Lucas is a withdrawn young man with a deep desire to travel. However, he carries the responsibility of supporting his dysfunctional family in his consciousness. Enduring the rejection he feels for his unbridled, but outstanding younger brother and his accomplice mother obsessed with appearances, Luke's contradictory emotions explode into a violent crime.
Mar 2018
After their daughter is discriminated in her school, Victoria and Rosana's relationship falls into a crisis due to their different opinions on the matter. Victoria will have to face the fear of assuming her homosexuality and the possible dissolution of her family.
Aug 2016
A frustrated writer working as a night guard struggles with writer’s block when interference on the security radio starts repeating lines from his own novel.
Karina is 51 years old and is a regular trucker on the north route. Due to mechanical problems, he stops for the first time at "La Mamita" restaurant. The owner and cook of the restaurant, Marta, 63, welcomes her as kindly as any of her customers. However, the accidental discovery of a human hand in the garbage makes Karina see that all the stories this cook tells her are nothing more than a premonition of her destiny.
Jan 2020
One-shot sci-fi following Kristian, forced by the government to scan his memories, trying keep a secret that threatens everything he has left.
Oct 2024
Old man Eladio is dying. Throughout the last decades, he has lived alone, working in his old liquor factory. Modernity threatens his spirits business, but he refuses to abandon it. A visit by his oldest grandson will be the ideal moment to save the factory, while at the same time, reconnect with his family.
Oct 2012
Marcela is a little girl who wakes up in an unknown house, under the care of Angela, who fights for her custody with Matías. The girl will try to find her mother without results, but will discover a stark reality.
Oct 2020
Sebastian comes to live in Santiago, to the home of his sister Rebeca, In a process of self-discovery, he realizes that she is a transgender woman. Start taking hormones to hide from Rebeca, fearing that she will judge her. One night, Rebeca finds hormones, and confronts Sebastian. Sebastian confesses that he is now Noa. A woman.
Nov 2017